For Your Consideration: Thomas Mashaba v. Cristobal Cruz
by SC on Dec 9, 2008 7:26 PM EST
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This fight took place on March 7 on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. Mashaba came in 20-1-4, on a 10-fight winning streak that spanned 2003-2007. All 10 of those fights took place in his native South Africa, so American and even European fans had never gotten to see much of Mashaba at all. His only other fight outside of South Africa was a split decision loss to Sod Looknongyangtoy in Thailand in '03, his lone career defeat.
Cruz we were more familiar with, a 30-year old vet that had been around the block enough to earn a 35-11-1 pro record coming into the fight in Mashantucket.
It's a really good fight, and will be part of our year-end top 20 countdown, which will be up sometime later in the month, obviously. Rounds one and two are in this first video, and the rest can be seen here.
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This was a pretty decent scrap
Although I had Mashaba winning narrowly if I recall correctly. Cruz threw as many punches as I remember seeing anyone ever throw, but they didn’t have a ton of mustard on them, and Mashaba kept nailing him with harder, more accurate shots, and I thought he did more damage over the course of the night.
Out of curiosity, is Lock-Hernandez going to be one of the fights on there? Another lower level scrap that turned out to be pretty good.
Vogt early, Vogt often.
by Brickhaus on Dec 9, 2008 8:13 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Lock-Gonzalez?
Outside looking in. Good fight, though.
"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum
by SC on Dec 9, 2008 8:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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